American Psychiatric Association (APA) and American Academy of Psychiatry abd Law (AAPL)
Amici Curiae
Richard G. Taranto, Counsel of RecordThe APA, with approximately 42,000 members, is the Nation’s leading organization of physicians specializing in psychiatry. The AAPL includes roughly 2,500 psychiatrists focusing on practice, teaching, and research in forensic psychiatry. Richard G. Taranto is a member of the law firm Farr & Taranto. He received his law degree from Yale University in 1981. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondent as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on January 22, 2003.A government can justify involuntary medication to restore a criminal defendant’s competence to stand trial on several necessary conditions,…
